Catharine MacKeigan
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- Height:
- 5-3
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- Hometown:
- Toronto, ON
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- Position:
- Hooker
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- Eligibility:
- 4
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- Program:
- BSc HK 4
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- Prev. Team:
- Balmy Beach Rugby Club
News mentions
X-Women prop Joanna Alphonso, hooker Catharine MacKeigan and fly half Sabrina McDaid were honored as CIS All-Canadians at the awards banquet held in conjunction with the CIS championship Wednesday night.
The St. Francis Xavier X-Women hope to become the first team since 2009 to repeat as CIS women’s rugby champions this weekend as the national tournament moves from a six-team pool-play format to an eight-team single-elimination competition.
Second-year StFX prop Joanna Alphonso has been named the Atlantic University Sport most valuable player. This is the ninth time in the past 11 seasons that a member of the StFX X-Women has earned the honour.
The Acadia Axewomen are 2015 AUS women’s rugby champions after a 34-17 victory over the StFX X-Women Friday night in front of 500 fans at StFX Oland Stadium.
The X-Women rugby team played a pair of exhibition games Thursday night and handily defeated their opponents. The first game featured a 58-5 victory over John Abbott College, then the CIS ranked No. 6 X-Women squad followed up with a 61-5 win over McGill.